Overview 2023
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The Tasmanian technology start-up sector has approached the University of Tasmania to co-design and co-develop a Graduate Diploma for high achieving ICT graduates with a passion for coding.
Students who are offered a place in this course are digital innovators who want to advance their entrepreneurial, leadership, design, and technical skills. Upon completion, you will have an authentic and tested understanding of what it means to engage in innovative product and service design, with a go-to-market focus.
You will understand what it means to be entrepreneurial and how to be a highly effective communicator who can “feed-into” the complexities of different business contexts and thrive in them. Your studies will include a large project-based component where you will work with the local tech industry in the design and pitch of an ICT product.
This course will equip you with advanced and diverse opportunities to become an ICT entrepreneur in possession of superior skills and capabilities at the early graduate level. Designed for those who want to branch out, build their own paths, and bring new ideas to life.
Learning Outcomes
Practical experience
Reverse Pitch Project
Gain first-hand experience pitching an innovative tech solution to investors. Your Reverse Pitch Project will give you exposure to how products are developed, pitched, and perceived by stakeholders and relevant markets.
Industry Driven Project
Create a prototype for a viable product or service advanced through a process of opportunity identification and analysis, iterative design development, and testing. You'll have the opportunity to explore the relationship between design and industry to develop skills in the planning, development, and production of products and services for a target market or use-case scenario.
Stakeholder Project
Apply your skills to an Indigenous based problem derived from the Indigenous community. Building a deep understanding of the unique needs of this community, you will move beyond basic stakeholder analysis and to exhibit empathy with stakeholder collaboration.
Career outcomes
The Graduate Diploma in Technology and Innovation explores entrepreneurialism, leadership, design, and technical programming specifically geared to the burgeoning Tasmanian technology start-up sector. Graduates will be qualified in the application, development, and user experiences of ICT services and products. With the capacity to plan high-quality innovative ICT projects.
This is an excellent opportunity to access mentoring and direct contact with the Tasmanian tech start-up sector. Demand for these skills continues to grow exponentially year on year as employment projections for Software and Application Programmers are upward trending and set to grow by grow by 23% by 2024.*
Graduates of this course will have the ability to advance their careers in:
- Technology start-up’s
- Consulting services
- Web development
- Application development
- Software development
- Business Analyst
- Entrepreneurial Projects
*Source: Job Outlook Australia, ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2019 and projections to 2024.
Course structure
The Graduate Diploma of Technology and Innovation (GradDipTechInnov) provides leading students with advanced skills to be highly competitive and job-ready. The course focus is on product design and its skills and on entrepreneurialism, leadership, the technical capabilities needed to enhance a software engineering skill set required to actively participate in the burgeoning Tasmanian technology start-up sector.
The course is based on design thinking and is co-created and co-delivered with ICT entrepreneurs based in Tasmania who also operate internationally. It is discipline agnostic; that is, skills outside ICT will be embedded to achieve course objectives. The course will equip students with advanced and diverse opportunities to become ICT professionals in possession of superior skills and capabilities at the early graduate level.
Students will complete 4 core units and 3 project units equating to100 credit points.
Core Units
Entrepreneurship is a way of looking at business that is focused on opportunities, creativity and innovation, these concepts will be explored in this unit. You will have the opportunity to explore a passion for doing the things that are important…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit extends a student's understanding of the development of applications on mobile ready platforms. To enable a richer experience in understanding the development process the unit will focus on one mobile platform. Emphasis is placed on the processes, tools…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit will focus on enriching the student's current skill set for technical web programming and development. Students will explore data management techniques that support scalability and usability, and the efficient performance of web platforms. Integrated in the technological aspect…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
This unit explores the relationship between design and industry to develop skills in the planning, development, and production of products and services for a target market or use-case scenario. You will learn how to identify opportunities for new product and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Project Units
The stakeholder project unit provides an opportunity for students to apply their skills to an Indigenous based problem derived from the Indigenous community. Building a deep understanding of the unique needs of this community will provide a platform for students…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The industry driven project unit provides an opportunity for students to apply their skills to an industry project that they will need to work together to produce an outcome that considers the relevant market and stakeholders. In this unit student…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
The reverse industry pitch project unit is the capstone unit for the graduate diploma. This unit provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their skills to a problem pitched by industry to develop a market ready and innovative solution. This…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
Bachelor Degree preferably in IT or cognate discipline and Successful completion of the programming ability test. Entry to the course is competitive. Applicants will be ranked on a combination of their programming ability test result along with their undergraduate degree results.
Credit transfer
The GradDipTechInnov is a bespoke course designed to build on the outcomes of any ICT undergraduate offering. The nature of the course is to up-skill undergraduates to a specialised sector. As such, credit or recognition for prior learning will not apply.
Articulation
Students who have successfully completed the Graduate Diploma of Technology and Innovation may be eligible to enter the Masters of Information Technology and Systems (K7I) with up to 100 cp of credit (entry depends on undergraduate qualifications because K7I is an accredited course).
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
This is a full-fee course, which means you’ll need to pay the full amount for your studies. Commonwealth Supported Places are not available in this course. However, there are still support options available for eligible students to help you manage the cost of studying this course.
You may be able to fund all or part of your tuition fees by accessing a FEE-HELP loan from the Australian Government. FEE-HELP is a loan scheme that assists domestic full-fee students to pay for University, which is repaid through the Australian Tax System once you earn above a repayment threshold. This means you’ll only have to start repaying the loan once you start earning above a specific amount
Our scholarships and prizes program also offers more than 400 scholarships across all areas of study. You can even apply for multiple scholarships in one easy application.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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